Aloo Paratha

1. Cook potatoes properly.
2. Don't overly mash potatoes. Else the stuffing becomes sticky.
3. Make the dough properly with little oil and salt.

Different Dal

To make tasty dal try following masalas:
1. Dalmakhani masala
2. Dhansak masala
Recently read in "saffron trail" that Mangals dhansak masala is good.

Bharlelya vangyachi bhaji [HIT]

Gravvy:
0.5 cup of gratted dry coconut
2 tsp til
2 tsp khaskhas
3 onions
2 tsp mustard seeds
4 cloves
4 tejpatta
2 sticks of dalchini
kala masala
little dalva powder
ginger
coriander

Did not fill the brinjals as done traditionally. Just cup and fried them.
Tastes creamy because of coconut.

Puran Poli [HIT]

Stuffing:
2 cups of chana dal
2.5 cups of sugar
0.5 cup of jaggery

Dough:
Atta + 3 tsp oil + 1 tsp salt
Number of puran polis = 16
Number of people at lunch = 7

Aloo vada [HIT]

The threee steps for making Aloo vada are:
1. Make Aloo bhaji
2. Make Besan paste
3. Fry Aloo vada
So lets begin with the first step.
1. Make Aloo bhaji:
My method of estimating aloos is - Take about 1 potato person person. Usually four onions. Lots of garlic and ginger. Ginger and garlic give the main taste. I take about 4 garlic petals per potato. And yes the green chillies and lots of coriander.
Boil potatoes. Fry onions in oil. Add potatoes, ginger garlic paste, chopped green chillies and coriander at once. Add salt.
2. Make besan paste.This paste should be of the consitency that it will coat the vadas well. It should not be too thick or too thin. Take about 1.5 cup of besan for 4 potatoes. This mixture can be made again if required. If the batter remains than pithla can be made!!
In besan add 0.5 teaspoon of turmeric, a pinch of soda, salt, little red chilli powder and little rice powder. Mix the ingredients well. Add water slowly and mix to make a thick batter.
3. Make balls of the allo bhaji and deep fry aloo vadas on a low flame.
Enjoy with pav, sos or dry groundnut chutney and fried green chillies!
Mouthwatering is the right word!!

Khobaryachi vadi [HIT]

This is the most simple vadi that I have made recently.
In 3 cups of grated coconut add 1.5 cup of sugar. Heat the mixture till the sugar melts and the mixture starts becoming thick. Add milk powder and cardamom powder. Pour the thick mixture on greased plate, pat it and cut vadis when cool.

Gulab jamun [MISS]

Reference: Sailu's kitchen blog
1. 1 cup khava
2. 3/4th cup maida
3. Soda 1/4th teaspoon
4. Sugar
5. cardamom powder.
6. Oil for frying

Sugar cyrup.
2 cups sugar+2cups water. Just get the solution to boil. Add cardamom powder.
This turned out to be perfect.

Gulab jamun.
Knead khava, maida, soda, 2 spoons of sugar syrup together. Use milk to make a good dough.
Roll into balls of equal size.
Fry on low flame.

The gulab jamuns did not get cooked completely.
Next time will try with rava instead of maida and more soda.